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Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed... →
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology... →
I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe... →
Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human is... →
We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure.... →
We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady -... →
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake... →
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.
There's this kind of war on running - people keep telling you you'll get hurt, get injured, that you need orthotics, that you need go to a... →
I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too... →
The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best... →
We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save... →
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